Google Meet's own transcript is a paid Workspace feature and it stays in Drive. Upload the meeting recording instead and get a timestamped text file you can search, quote and translate.
Manual translation, hired voice actors, days of waiting. Creators and teams lose time and money on every single video.
Skip the old workflowThe transcript button in Meet is greyed out or missing, and I need the text of the meeting anyway.
The transcript exists but it lives in someone else's Drive as a Doc, and I cannot get a file I can edit or subtitle.
Half the meeting was in another language and Meet's transcript only handled one.
Upload, pick languages, and let the AI handle the rest. No software to install.
A few clicks, that is all.
A few clicks, that is all.
A few clicks, that is all.
A few clicks, that is all.
Google Meet does have a transcript feature, and it is the first thing to understand: it is part of paid Google Workspace editions rather than something every account gets, the host has to have it enabled before the meeting, and the result lands as a Google Doc inside Drive — tied to that account, that file, that workspace. If you are on a personal account, if the setting was off, if the meeting was recorded on someone else's calendar, or if you just want the text in a format you can put into an editor, that route stops. Uploading the recording is the alternative that always works: Meet saves recordings as MP4 in Drive, you download that file, drop it here, and get back a timestamped transcript with sentence breaks. From there you can export SRT or VTT if the words are going back onto the video as subtitles, translate the whole transcript into 30+ languages, or summarise it into meeting minutes. Nothing about the process depends on which Google plan you are on, and the transcript stays independent of the Workspace account it came from. Costs 1 credit per minute of audio, with 20 free credits at sign-up and a daily free allowance; failed tasks are not charged.
Any Meet MP4 you can download is enough — personal account, Education, Business, or a recording someone shared with you. No Workspace edition required, no host settings to chase.
Transcript with timestamps, exportable as SRT, VTT or TXT — so the words can go back onto the video as subtitles, into a doc, or into a ticket tracker.
One transcript, then 30+ languages or a summary. Useful when the meeting was multilingual, or when only two people need the detail and everyone else needs the decisions.
It can, if your Google plan includes it: Meet transcripts are part of certain paid Workspace editions, the host has to enable transcription before or during the meeting, and the output is saved as a Google Doc in the host's Drive. On personal accounts the option is usually not available at all. If you do not have it — or cannot get a usable file out of it — download the meeting recording and transcribe that instead.
Download the recording from Google Drive (the 'Meet Recordings' folder is where Meet saves them), then upload the MP4 here. You get a timestamped transcript with sentence breaks, exportable as SRT, VTT or TXT. Audio is what gets transcribed, so video resolution has no effect on accuracy.
Transcription costs 1 credit per minute of audio, sign-up includes 20 free credits plus a daily free allowance, and failed tasks are never charged. There is no subscription and nothing to cancel — a single meeting costs a fraction of a credit pack, and re-running a failed job is free.
The transcription handles the common meeting languages (English, Chinese, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Japanese, Korean and more), and any transcript can then be translated into 30+ languages. That second step is what matters for multilingual meetings: transcribe in the language that was actually spoken, translate afterwards.
Clear single-speaker stretches are the easy case. Meeting audio is harder than a podcast: crosstalk, bad room mics, people joining late, and names or internal jargon will need a pass. Read it once and fix names, numbers and product terms — that is still far faster than taking notes live.
The same upload works for any recording you can download, and there are dedicated pages for Zoom transcription and for turning a meeting recording into minutes. If your meeting was on Teams, export the recording and treat it exactly the same way.
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